Discuss the tension between justice and revenge in crime fiction.For this essay, you must compare two of the texts covered in the course with reference to a range of relevant secondary sources. Texts (Choose two): 1.
For this essay, you must compare two of the texts covered in the course with reference to a range of relevant secondary sources. Texts (Choose two): 1. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 2. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 3. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 4. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 5. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 6. The Boundary by Nicole Watson 7. Inspector Singh Investigates the Singapore School of Villainy by Shamini Flint Essay questions (choose one): 1. Analyse the relationship between bodies, technologies and detection in crime fiction. 2. Crime fiction is more concerned with the violation of property rights than with violence against human bodies. Do you agree? 3. Do the representations of criminality in your chosen texts reflect differences in social, cultural and political contexts? 4. [C]rime writing as a genre is a space that lends itself to exposing, denouncing, addressing and [] constructing Otherness. Equally, in the face of heightened multiculturalism which may blur traditional distinctions, the genre is able to negotiate issues of belonging, difference, hybridity and national and regional identities. Discuss. 5. What is the role of representations of violence in crime fiction? 6. Does crime fiction seek to celebrate or circumscribe alternative subjectivities? Consider in relation to gender, ethnicity, or class. 7. Discuss the tension between justice and revenge in crime fiction. 8. Crime fiction [] tends to produce a contradictory account of the state as both necessary for the creation and maintenance of collective life and central to the reproduction of entrenched socio-economic inequalities, to the point that this tension becomes the constitutive and foundational feature of the emerging genre. Do you agree? 9. How do crime fiction texts challenge our notions of literary value? 10. Explore the relationship between the textual and ideological aims of crime fiction and journalism.
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